Info on Columbia v. Heller

This is a discussion on Info on Columbia v. Heller within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Oral arguments are to be heard before the court on Tuesday March 18th. Not surprisingly this is the only case on the docket that day.
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Approximately 19 briefs in support of the petitioner (DC), 47 briefs in support of the respondent (Heller), and 1 brief in support of reversal (of the Court of Appeals decision) submitted by 18 members of the US House of Representatives (listed below):

I also found it most interesting that one brief in support of Heller was submitted by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc, (AAPS) whose mission statement includes

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,
Inc. (“AAPS”) is a non-profit, national group of
thousands of physicians founded in 1943. AAPS has
physician members who rely on their freedom to own
and carry firearms to guard against criminal activity,
which includes attempts to break into their offices to
obtain controlled substances or potential attacks by
patients on the physicians attempting to help them.

I wonder if this group of physicians will be in hot water with the AMA since their stance clearly is against AMA policy?

Reading further into the AAPS brief I found this little nugget:

Constitutional law – specifically, the Second
Amendment – cannot depend on politicized views of
medicine. Amici curiae briefs submitted for Petitioners
by the American Public Health Association
(APHA) and the American Academy of Pediatricians
(AAP) (the “Petitioners’ Medical Amici”) insist that
medical evidence supports gun control. AAP claims
that firearms are a medical “contagion”, and that
“children cannot be taught gun safety.” AAP Brief at
35, 12. In fact, medical professionals have no more
qualifications or basis to opine about the Second
Amendment than anyone else. The attempt to
shroud political gun control arguments in the white
coat of physicians and public health officials is utterly
baseless, and constitutional law should not be influenced
by it.

At least one group of MD's realize that they have no expertise in the areas of gun safety and gun control, and that they should not be trying to influence policy in this area.